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Ah yeah I remember the other weapons now. I think W4 will definitely get modernized gameplay. Also the fist-fighting combat could be improved a lot too. It would be cool too if there was more use of bows, (besides crossbow). And shooting bows from the horse. Also pole weapons. The enemies will be improved. W3 2015 was released around the same time as Bloodborne. Bloodborne had better gameplay and enemies/bosses. Did you read the "books" that you looted? This time I'm reading them all and it's a ton of stuff. I find it interesting how the contents in the books is often related to a certain quest, culture, or characters, enriching the environment as well by telling you what this place is all about.

I think it's worth playing a game you really like a second or third or even fourth time, especially if you haven't done so in years. I have not gone through W3 in 6-7 years and I see it in a much more complete and different way now. I also forgot the details of most of the quests so I experience most of it for the first time again.

These are 7/4 NASA images. The red dots are fires, mostly caused by Russian artillery strikes. 1-2: southern front. 3-4: Izyum salient

(95) The Witcher 3: Dijkstra's sarcasm - YouTube (95) The Witcher 3: Dijkstra Being Sassy - YouTube Dijkstra was very funnily written and acted! (95) Witcher 3 Hearts of Stone Walkthrough Part 6 All quests Death March (all side quests + commentary) - YouTube Dead Man's party, one of the nicest quests. (96) The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt:Ceasar Bilzen and his Nifgaardian Collection. - YouTube Several novel references here, including the "rope they used to hang Skellen"

In Hearts of Stone CDPR concludes the story of "the Order of the Flaming Rose" (Novels/Witcher 1/2) with a side quest. They also include a cannibal side quest (there was one in the novels, and one in Witcher 1). Bandit gangs were a big part of the novels and here Olgeird's gang appears. Also CDPR concludes the story of Shani (A minor character in the novels and a main character in Witcher 1).

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In WW2 there were millions of men in the Ukraine, and in the region of 2.5 million Soviet troops. The Russians in 2022 have less than 200K troops, and very few are infantrymen. Russian holdings in Ukraine is like swiss cheese. The Russians have a mere 200 or so infantry per 5-19 kilometers of frontline. Even the Donbass has only one BTG per 5-6 KM of front. However, this weakness in infantryman has been compensated by good performance of Russian artillery, which routinely defeats Ukr attacks without much Russian infantry/tank intervention. Operations are snail like as the Russians are extremely casualty sensitive. They want to shoot the Ukrainians to death first, and the mop up the remnants. This can take a long time as they fire their munitions and repeatedly reload with new supplies. The Russians spent a month after the Popsna breakout to shoot up the Ukr in the Donbass, and as a consequence the twin cities fell rather easily when they actually engaged them directly with infantry and tanks.

They are remaking Dead Space 1! I remember that Dead space 1 and 2 were great. 3 was weaker than the first 2

The length of the break (to re-accumulate supplies, refresh units) depends on what is going on right now. It is meaningless to estimate how long it is without access to Russian military primary sources. However the unsustainable human losses is a daily occurrence for the Ukrainian army. The depth of the advance, besides logistically determined, also has a lot to do with what is going on with the defense. So you see the Ukrainians retreating now, and the Russians are advancing much faster than usual. This could go on for another day, or more. If the Ukranian army is so degraded that only 5% of their troops are professional soldiers then Odessa Oblast could fall fairly easily. Who knows. However Putin/Russia is close to completing the Donbass. The ball is in Russia's court, on how much war Putin/Russia can politically tolerate.

Unless the 'experts' have access to primary sources (Russian) they come across as making biased guesses. I have followed every combat day of the war and frankly a lot of the experts I've seen in the media know a lot less about the war than I do.

You can 'see it' if you are familiar with what has been going on in the battlefield. The Ukrainians have taken huge losses, and perform poorly in the attack. The Ukrainian military is heavily degraded, much more so than the Russian. They just suffered a strategic defeat btw..

There is no tank shortage and that argument is just wishful thinking. Russian Artillery is the decisive arm of this war. The Russian tactic is to perform artillery offensive throughout the tactical and operational depths, and then use airpower/missile strikes at the strategic depths. Then the Russians move up with infantry-tank groups and mop up the positions. They do not even use predominantly professional Russian army soldiers to do this- but DRP/LRP militamen, National Guard and PMC. The Ukrainian logistics have been hit for almost 130 days now and they have demonstrated very low offensive capability. The core competency of Ukraine is in the area of propaganda and misinformation, rather than military competence.

It doesn't really matter if the war ends in 2022!

Repeating a propaganda argument. The last US pentagon estimate was 1000 Russian tanks destroyed and damaged. And damaged tanks can be repaired. In actual combat most tanks are repaired over and over again. It is a minority of tanks that blow up like a fireball like in a computer game. And tanks in storage can be made operational, like the 200 T-62s fitted with modern sensors and delivered to the militias.

These analysts have been consistently wrong about Russia's shortages, and have failed to predict the invasion itself. Have you noticed how they rarely report on Ukraine's great weaknesses? Until the Russians stop shooting 40-30 missile launches a day there is no shortage, as the Ukrainian ground force would not be a serious force by the fall. Oct-Nov 2022.

Arming the DRP militias with T-62s is not indication that the Russians are running out of combat worthy tanks. You seen to be guzzling down propaganda, if you are repeating the tank and missile shortage stories. Russian Army 2021 IISS MBT 2,840 operational (with 10,200 in storage: 7,000 T-72/T-72A/B; 3,000 T-80B/BV/U; 200 T-90) RECCE 1,700. IFV 5,220. (8,500 in storage) APC 6,100+ ARTILLERY 4,684+ (of this Self-propelled 1,938. MRL 876+. MOR 1,540+) (further 5,810 in storage) Naval Infantry (Marines) ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLES MBT 330 IFV 1,100. APC 400. ARTILLERY 405 (of this SP 181. MRL 58. ) Airborne Forces ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLES MBT 160 IFV 130. APC • APC (T) 808. ARTILLERY 600+ Border Guard Service ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLES IFV/APC (W) 1,000 BMP/BTR ARTILLERY 90 National Guard ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLES RECCE some BRDM-2A IFV/APC (W) 1,650 BMP-2/BTR-70M/BTR-80/BTR82A/BTR-82AM ARTILLERY 35

Russian MOD kill claim for recent fighting. So the upper limit of Ukrainian losses in the LPR were 5,469 casualties over the course of two weeks. Sanitary- 3,251 so this is the new claimed POW intake. That is a maximum of 455 ukrainian casualties a day for 12 days around the twin cities. Also 196 tanks/AFVs, 12 aircraft, 1 helicopter, 69 UAV, 6 AA, 97MLRS, 166 guns and mortars, 216 military vehicles- a good portion of this is likely abandoned due to their retreat. Within two weeks, groups in the "Gorsky Kotla", in the areas of Lysychansk and Severodonetsk were surrounded and liquidated. 25 settlements were taken under control, the largest of which are Severodonetsk, Zolote, Gorske, Volcheyarivka. The operation was completed yesterday with the liberation of one of the largest cities of the Lugansk People's Republic - Lysychansk. In total, 670 square kilometers of territory were taken under control during the active offensive actions. The total losses of the armed forces of Ukraine amounted to 5469 people, including irrevocable - 2218, sanitary - 3251; 196 tanks and other armored vehicles, 12 aircraft, one helicopter, 69 unmanned aerial vehicles, six long-range anti-aircraft missile systems, 97 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 166 field and mortar artillery pieces, 216 vehicles for various purposes

Russia has something like over 10,000 T-72/T-80/T-90 in storage. I posted this data from the IISS research on this thread. Besides that the tank losses they have taken aren't even that significant among the ground forces. The 200 odd T-62 tanks equipped with modern sensors were sent to arm the DRP militias. The T-62 is still useful for assault gun actions. The Russian army also provided them with T-64. Both tank types are not used by the Russian army. The Russians have also maintained the same level of strategic missile and air support (300-200 sorties and 30-40 launches) everyday since the beginning of the war. This argument you posted is Ukrainian propaganda, not facts. The US/UK media has been overrun with an endless river of obvious Ukrainian misinformation about the war, and biased journalists/Western military 'experts' have lapped it up without questioning the source. The 'rotten Russian army' arguments about the Russians running out of men, missiles, equipment and 2 weeks from Russian military collapse since the 2nd week of the war has not happened. This shows that Western media is being misinformed and has fallen prey to wishful thinking. This is to the point where millions of people think that Ukraine is winning the war!

In practice it allowed European countries to spend a very low % of GDP on defense (especially Germany) while being under the US influence with US bases scattered all throughout NATO countries. There is a trade impact too. The irony is that the low % GDP on defense means that NATO members don't have much to give to Ukraine, and they did not adequately prepare Ukraine against Russia. You remember that Putin/Russia tried to join NATO? Doesn't make much sense if you think about it. If Russia joined NATO there is little reason for NATO to exist LOL.

A lot of developing news that the Seversk defense line is apparently under threat. Since the Ukrainians did not really fight the battle for the twin cities, the Russians have not made an operational pause and have enough juice are continuing the offensive. They also crossed the Siverskyi Donets river to the Northwest of Seversk and are moving against the rear of the defense line. Also there are Ukr troop movements leaving Seversk. And Russian gains to the south. the Seversk line may be untenable and the Ukr may retreat westward to the Bakhmut line. After Bakhmut, the twin cities of Sloyvansk-Kramatorsk are the final key cities in the Donbass, population base the same as Sevorendonesk-Lsyshansk.

Yeah, even though in the novels Geralt uses only swords, for gameplay purposes they could have loosened up that restriction and let him use all sorts of weapons. A stamina bar would have been helpful. how do you feel about the looting system? the never-ending amount of loot everywhere and all the inventory management. I suspect that it is a way for CDPR to get the player invested in exploring and observing their artwork. It is also funny how Geralt can do a quest for a peasant and then immediately start looting his house lol. If someone decides to loot everything and manage their armor/weapons, they would end up getting very overpowered and 2-shot most enemies.